Age of Empires

THE GOOD:
Excellent strategy game
Educational as well with real civilisations and heroes of the time

THE BAD:
Large games can take an age (no pun intended) to complete

SUMMARY:
Age of Empires is a RTS game where the basic aim is to build up your civilisation from a few villagers up to a massive army and conquer the world. You can choose from various civilisations that actually existed and all of them have strengths and weaknesses. To win it's best to capitalise on your strengths and use them.

In this game you can do single player missions where you are taken through some real life events and you play your way through them. The knowledge I've gained from this game is actually remarkable useful and has actually come up in conversations and quizzes from time to time. Tell that to people who think games aren't educational! But the real fun of this game comes from playing multiplayer games either against the computer or other...

THE GOOD:
This game has incredibly graphics, and lots of neat cultures from when the world was young, and when everything was happening in the middle east, and south east europe. The details given to the many ancient units of those days are incredible. The way you play is up to you. The edit mode is wonderful for creating your own scenario.

THE BAD:
Sadly what this game, and all other AOE games are missing is MORE if only there had been more cultures, more places to fight, and more things to fight with, this game would've been even better.

SUMMARY:
If you like strategy games where you're in control of a race or empire, this is the game for you, not able to compete with it's decendants, but still an excellent first AOE game, this game is great. If you want to see some cultures a bit older than the ones of later AOE's, this game has them.

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SUMMARY:
This is also alot like Warcraft. Except this involves the evolution of mankind. You begin with one Builder and a Town square. You make more builders at the town square and then build farms for food, places to train warriors, walls, upgrading structures, boats, docks, and places of higher learning. You do this and fight the enemy. Simple and easy. There are many levels in which to play, and the upgrading options are huge. Train stupid axemen to become sword-wielding killing machinces. But before you do that you must advance to a certain age. YOu usually start out in the Stone Age, and go to the next age by getting so many advanced buildings. As your Age goes to the next, all of your buildings will upgrade and have new options. You have to mine gold to do this, but its plentiful. YOu may also need oil and wood, but they are readily available, too.

General/Summary: A good game that gets you hooked straight away!
Its very easy to play. And there's lots of ways to play it!
Gameplay: You got a good variety of quests, levels, fighters-eg, warriers, bowmen, horse men, etc and can all be upgraded to bigger and better things.
You can pick up how to play the game straight away in about an hour at least!
At first there seems like an endless amount of levels to complete, even later on you realize there were a fair few.
You feel in complete control of your civilisation and how you set it out. In my oppinion-its one of the best simulation games to have ever have come out-a whole unique series!

Graphics: Graphics aren't bad for a simulation game.
You don't need great graphics to enjoy the build up and destroy the other civilisation thing. The graphics look like comic drawings in a way.

Sound: Sound isn't too bad. A bit limited though. There could have been a bit more of a variety.

THE GOOD:
Addictive gameplay, storyline (actual history) is interesting, lots of units, level editor, solid gameplay

THE BAD:
Bland graphics, campaigns can be repetitive, units can be unbalanced

SUMMARY:
Back when I first got this game I was very addicted to it for the longest time. Up until then the best RTS I had played had been Warcraft II which was decent in its own respects but paled in comparison. I enjoyed playing this game for the longest time. Now it is unfair to compare it to the later releases of titles such as Starcraft or AoE II but during it's time this game was unrivaled.

As you act out history itself through some of the very well designed campaigns (which do tend to be repetitive) you'll have a bevy of units at your disposal as you start from almost nothing and build your own empire to take on the likes of Alexander the Great, Hector and even Caesar. And aside from that there are several other modes which include...

THE GOOD:
Graphics, sound effects, EVERYTHING!

THE BAD:
None hah! It is too good

SUMMARY:
This game is the best! If you payed 1000 bucks for it it would be worth it. It even has an Expantion:The Rise of Rome! They are the same except for a few things but who cares? The people yell when they die and it sounds realistic you can create your own scenario (my favorite is lord of the rings. hobbits are vilagers Gandalf is a priest,Aragorn and Boromir are legions,Legolas is a composite bowman and Gimli is an axeman!)

THE GOOD:
-Battles
-its fun to play...

THE BAD:
-Units get lost in the woods!
-Random marching pattern

SUMMARY:
I love AOE. This is my kinda game, sort of. The fighting is good, the units that you have to work with are good and it has a great replay value becuase you have multiple different kinds of maps, different enemies and you can make your own senarios. The downside is that your army marches randomly, and if they hit trees, they just stop and wait for you to find them again.

THE GOOD:
Innovative strategy game, with good bttling system, and can be quite challenging on a high difficulty.

THE BAD:
Not very much replay value and the gameplay lacked in certain areas. Plus part 2 is much better.

SUMMARY:
Well when I first played this game I was somewhat satisfied by it. I am a big fan of strategies and this game was pretty good. I enjoyed the evolving civilizations and new people that came with it. I also enjoyed the difficulty which always gives you a challenge. This game though just did not have enough to get you hooked and you find yourself more drawn to play Starcraft or something. I recommend borrowing or renting this game if you can.

THE GOOD:
has really gr8 graphics

THE BAD:
nothing is bad about the game

SUMMARY:
a really really great game and a good random map generator, the first age of empires game was a great hit...it has good FMV's and u can tell that all age of empires are good games...i wish i could rate it ten;)i do reckon that this is good but u can see that the other games and expansions r the fav's now but i still like this one it rocks! hope microsoft creates more of AOE!

This game is very good. It has a good control structure and lots of other things like siege weapons Phalanxes and others. The only bad thing about this game is that the limited resources mkes it difficult to advance through the ages and build large structures.